Donald Trump is lashing out on Twitter, again, and this time he’s set his target on Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi. Not exactly a new low.
“Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!” Trump tweeted twice Tuesday night, as the Republican frontrunner waited for elections result from Arizona and Utah. Trump was apparently upset by an image of his wife, Melania, in an anti-Trump attack. The suggestive picture of Trump’s former model wife, from a shoot for British GQ in 2000, was used by an anti-Trump group hoping to gin up Mormon voters with appeals to their morality in an effort to ramp up the anti-Trump vote:
“Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad,” Trump tweeted late Monday, incorrectly accusing his Republican presidential opponent of being the source of the attack:
Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2016
But as Buzzfeed reported, the Make America Awesome Political Action Committee, run by GOP operative Liz Mair, is behind the ad, not Cruz.
Cruz said as much, responding to Trump’s threat. “Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you’re more of a coward than I thought,” Cruz tweeted:
Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought. #classless https://t.co/0QpKSnjgnE
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2016
Mair, the actual source of the ad, responded to Trump’s misplaced aggression with a bit of humor:
I'm surprised @realDonaldTrump didn't just take the approach to me his followers all do: YOU'RE A TRANNY LEZBO K*KE, RAWRRRR!!!!!
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) March 23, 2016
